Personally, when I earmarked the funds for "PerlMonks development", I figured it would go where the need is greatest, or where it would do the most good. I didn't have an expectation that it would go strictly to hardware or bandwidth.

With my performance improvement analysis hat on, I do think that some of the changes tye has suggested are very promising, and may even pay off more than switching to faster hardware (within reason ;-). So no, I don't have a problem with it. I think the money's being used as I intended it.

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
Other